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- SimonUK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41It could if I disable Adblock Plus.
- NtrmDscrptr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24My upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy also went to hell.
Fortunately, I was able to repair it, but my emphatic advice is to hold off until the proper release. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21I don't see any ads. In fact, I believe somebody has removed all the ads from the internet...
- jpjandrade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Well, why don't you find an interesting story about Windows, submit here, and if enough people find it interesting, it will go to the front page. That's pretty much how digg works, champ. "User generated content" is not just a nickname.
- Renton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Add, what's that? Are you talking about math or something?
- fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Did anyone read Eugenia's review on OSNews? She brags about submitting bugs, talks about how they didn't fix all of her's and then complains that some video codec isn't installed by default. Then, in the thread after, someone tries to help her, she bitches at them, and tells them she'll have the admin 'Adam' ban them! Later, for the apoligy she mentions it's her anniversary. Sorry, but I've heard it all from her over the years, and she's 1) far too self absorbed, and 2) holier than thou. Sorry, this is open source, where everyone has a chance.
Check it: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18656&limit= ...
But be careful, as EU says: "be VERY careful WHAT you write over here, because baseless accusations indeed CAN lead to banning" Oh no, I'm sure I will be banned now...boo..hoo.
Oh, last thing, after she threatens banning the person, I noticed their digg like voting...yeah, it's disabled for her, it just says OSN Staff, since again, she's holier than thou! You can't even vote her down! Nice, real open conversation there. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Once again, what are all these ads you guys keep talking about????! I don't see any?!!!
*turns off adblock plus*
".....oh my!" - nanostream, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12The types of ads are unpredictable. If someone doesn't see your "windows ad," that person will bury you.
- cesclaveria, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10http://adblockplus.org/en/
- fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I *think* they were being sarcastic - either that or they deserve the "you must be new here" reply!
- mmmiiikkkeee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10when I read digg/slashdot at my school, i have to use there windows computer; it has Firefox, but no ad block plug in :( ..... it amazes me every time how many adś people tolerate. its like wow site XYZ its really ugly with all these adś. am i at the right place... its a weird feeling.
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Get yourself a portable Firefox with adblocker like XeroBank Browser (also has privacy).
- airstrike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7FTA: "Pidgin's MSN support is not always what it should be. The biggest annoyance is that you cannot seem to change your server-side MSN alias, so whatever you enter client-side, it will not update the server side, and therefore not show up in your contacts' user lists."
Well, that is definetely not true. I use Pidgin and there is actually a very simple way to change your username: 'Accounts -> user@hotmail.com -> Set Friendly Name...' What they definetely need to improve (although I'm not running the latest version) is support for offline messaging under MSN (including messaging while invisible) and the ability to change 'personal messages', since I can't seem to change that at all, even if i dig through the configuration dialogs. They have a long way to go, but they've also improved a lot since Gaim. - mstanisl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I stopped going to the site almost three years ago because of Eugenia. What an annoying bitch.
- jpjandrade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Sweet jesus, 7.10 looks very nice. Can't wait for its release
- xtlosx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I actually just did a fresh install of Gutsy Gibbon, Tribe 5, and upon reboot, had a LOT of updates to get, but all is well.. everything is working... it's on an amd64 system, and it's great!!
- ryodoan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6exactly, I turned off adblock and not only did the page take an extra 30 seconds to load but the formatting was all screwed up.
I love adblock... - D3koy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6What's the problem?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Could this page be filled with more ads?
- jakethecake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
- nimajji, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8cant wait to get hands on gnome 2.20, tried out the live cd, pretty slow but very nice indeed.
- Gogogo111, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Because in their opinion, transparent bars look better.
- mrfrosti, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"This is the first time that I truly feel as if I am using a product when using Ubuntu, instead of a collective effort to make desktop Linux suck less." - Thom Holwerda
Its funny because its true... - makario, on 09/03/2009, -0/+5Here's a novel idea: try the Microsoft section instead of the Linux/Unix section.
Just saying. - superjamie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why is the Close X in the top left now? I think I'll stick to Clearlooks 2.1 when I upgrade.
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content ... - fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Cool, I'm itching to update my PPC iBook - I'm hoping that 'PowerTop' app will help the battery life. I know much of it aims at Intel chips, but some of the stuff in the kern should help PPCs too. It's a good time to be in Linux...and with Ubuntu it's just getting so much better, so much faster, than it used to. Fun times.
- tdawson2012, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Its a simple matter of sliding the transparency setting to opaque. The option exists already in Feisty.
- ascheinberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You *can* mod her down, and all of the admins, if you're not a new user with just a few comments. And all but 1% of the moderation is done by the USERS, not the admins. You pointed to a comment where a user is griping about moderation, just like you see at EVERY site that has moderation. Old news, move on.
- airstrike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3because people (like me and many others) LIKE those lame ass names. also, they're not the official names, but more like codenames instead. the official name of this release is Ubuntu 7.10. this has been discussed so many times i shouldn't even bother with such trolling.
read the first few lines on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon and please shut up - NiX0n, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I really wish there was more love for Kubuntu out there. We don't all adore GNOME.
- ascheinberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2a) She didn't even write the article
b) Admins don't mod people down for modding them
c) it doesn't matter, because you're giving the old typical excuse "If I disagree with an admin they'll mod me down." I hear that all the time, but it's almost univerally your peers who don't like incessant griping about moderation and your personal attacks on the admins. Stay on topic and you wouldn't have a problem - same goes for here. - fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2>> You *can* mod her down, and all of the admins, if you're not a new user with just a
>> few comments.
You are correct, thanks for pointing that out.
>> a) She didn't even write the article
Correct, she wrote the article that this article references when he says, "Just like Eugenia a yesterday, I also upgraded my laptop's Ubuntu Feisty installation to Gutsy a few days ago." This in turn is the article I was griping about.
>> b) Admins don't mod people down for modding them
True, I don't have any facts on that, but the fact that she threatened to ban someone because of what they said seemed suspect that she could do the same for mods she doesn't agree with. yes, this is my own interpretation that is a weak point, so I give you the nod there.
>> c) it doesn't matter, because you're giving the old typical excuse "If I disagree with
>> an admin they'll mod me down." I hear that all the Time, but it's almost universally
>> your peers who don't like incessant griping about moderation and your personal attacks
>> on the admins.
but my personal attack was only aired here, as I have not done this on OSnew's site, in fact I've never attacked her save for this Digg thread, it's just after AGAIN seeing her berate another commentator, I had to say something - and it was ontopic, if you view the first line of the article that mentions her. Let's review what happened :: So look at the thread I reference at OSNews, someone disagrees with her, noting that "...FFMPEG doesn't actually have AAC inside it; it links against FAAC/FAAD...." which was on topic, and not an attack, to which EU responds, "...As I write in the bug report that I link and you obviously didn't bother to click..." He thought that was a little harsh, considering he was just trying to help, "...Nice to see you resort to abuse rather than polite debate - the issue at hand is AAC support within FFMPEG..." to which she pleads her case with "...I didn't "abuse" you, get over yourself. I simply showed that you didn't research the matter very well. You rushed to support ubuntu a bit too early without having all the facts at hand..." and then followed up with her own comments 30 minutes later with the offensive, "...Kaiwai, be VERY careful WHAT you write over here, because baseless accusations indeed CAN lead to banning...." So while you can say that intonation is hard to convey via forum posts, I do not see what Kaiwai wrote that would warrant her to threaten to ban him. Do you disagree?
>Stay on topic and you wouldn't have a problem - same goes for here.
Generally I do, but this topic interested me, and it seems to have for you as well. I do appreciate your posts, and know that I'm not usually a troll who just complains to hear my own voice. I appreciate what EU has done for the community, but her attitude often detracts from it, and does not speak to how I view the free software community. Open communication is what makes what we do possible.
Thanks for your comments. - fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Mod her down for what? To have her threaten me? I think not, that's not the kind of openness I'm used to. I'm removing my user from there, there's many other news sites that I like better, and she's the nail in the coffin.
- psilanthropist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2ntfs works perfectly now under Linux. ironically, since the new ntfs-3g project completed work on a stable release, ive bought a new mac and havent been able to get it to run on os x. but i assure you ntfs supporton linux is excellent and easy to use (no command line)
- fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Well at least it's not just me:
http://darkmere.wanfear.com/blog/archives/000133.h ...
"Will Eugenia please shut up?"
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/004780.htm ...
"There are 1500 comments every day on osnews. There are many 2 or 3 that are trolling against me. I can live with a few jerks around, no problem."
Count me as a jerk then, since her abuse of people posting has been going on for years. Hit google, I'm already too annoyed to continue. - Ghoztt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Wow. Looks very sharp. Can't wait for it! I use Windows XP Pro for my main rig - Ubuntu on my servers. More power to Ubuntu!
- ThomHolwerda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You can move the buttons around in GNOME. Launch gconf-editor, and browse to /apps/metacity/general. There's a key in there called "button_layout".
- happytron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Same here... if you want a computer that can boot without too much manual intervention, then you might want to hold off.
- purdo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I must say the last version of Ubuntu I used was Breezy Badger, which was good but it did have some fundamental problems, which kept me away. From trying Gutsy out I checked all my annoyances and everyone of them has gone. I reckon I could go completely native with Linux with this release.
- motang, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Looking forward to the release of the Beta...going to be install that on my laptop.
- bigern75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ive been using gutsy since tribe 3 and Its been great!!!
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Bury: Stupid Digg bug.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I upgraded to Gutsy yesterday on my PPC Mac Mini. I had issues with the ati/radeon driver - loading xwindows resulted in a black screen. Playing with xorg.conf was no good - the solution was to install an earlier version of xserver-xorg-video-ati package.
Gutsy also handled installation of the broadcom driver and handled firmware cutter stuff automatically.
Overall, I'm happy with it. - fatbeaver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1thanks! I'm glad I don't have to do a fresh install.
- akkibaba, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Way to ruin truegodofwar's joke, jackass.
- euvirtual, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You will be glad to know the msnp14 branch was recently merged, and the next version (due in a few weeks) should do what you want. I'm testing the latest version, and although pidgin itself is not yet stable, the offline messages and personal messages work.
- adt41287, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I actually just did this yesterday and Iwill tell you gutsy is pretty awesome, compiz seems very very stable and very smooth, even on my laptop has an intel 915 graphics chip
- fatbeaver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sorry I am a linux total newbie, but do I have to do a fresh install everytime I want to upgrade my ubuntu?
- NiX0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So the background can fill the entire screen.
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What about a clean install of Gutsy than upgrading to the final release ? Basically I'm about to do a reinstall of Ubuntu and Gutsy sounds so awesome. :(
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